Manual Labours

crazyfoxmoon: A few years ago I came across this book at a...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:22:15 +0100

A few years ago I came across this book at a local library’s used book sale. I am slowly studying Japanese, so of course I had to buy it. I think I may have spent only 50 cents for this. It is a penmanship book, but the truly cool thing is the stamp on the frontspiece. This book cleared US Military Intelligence during World War II.

jonyorkblog: Marius LundgårdGinsberg’s America (Berkeley,...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:36:16 +0100

jonyorkblog:

Marius Lundgård
Ginsberg’s America (Berkeley, 1956), 2009

This book is a visual rendition of Allen Ginsberg’s delivery of his poem America at Berkeley in 1956. The poem—Ginsberg’s voice—is transcribed and typeset in Times Bold, while the audience’s laughter and comments is painted in Indian ink straight on the silkscreen film.

Printed with Kees Maas at the GRA silkscreen workshop

Photo

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:54:25 +0000

Photo

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:53:53 +0000

Photo

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:43:08 +0000

thingsmagazine: ‘Heroes’ (via an interview with the curator....

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:51:10 +0000

thingsmagazine:

‘Heroes’ (via an interview with the curator. See also Bowie Mania Again)

Photo

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:15:18 +0000

Photo

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:49:59 +0000

design-is-fine: Bilderbriefe, so hat Lou Scheper‐Berkenkamp...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:18:42 +0000

design-is-fine:

Bilderbriefe, so hat Lou Scheper‐Berkenkamp diese Werke genannt. Mit Wortwitz geschrieben, mit Liebe gemacht. Beispiel: Urlaubsgruß an Maria Rasch,1928, 28,8x21,3 cm. Deckfarbe, Aquarell und Tusche. Copyright: Nachlass Scheper, Berlin, Foto: Bauhaus‐Archiv Berlin

Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp (* 15. Mai 1901 in Wesel als Hermine Luise Berkenkamp; 11. April 1976 in Berlin) war eine deutsche Malerin und Farbgestalterin. Nach ihrem Abitur 1920 immatrikulierte sich Lou Berkenkamp am Bauhaus in Weimar und nahm Unterricht bei Johannes Itten, Paul Klee und Georg Muche. wikipedia.

Presseinfo zur Ausstellung Phantastiken, Bauhaus, 2012

“Bilderbriefe” means Picture-Letters. So Lou called those witty greetings, artistically made, lots of love for detail.

Read more .

Photo

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:17:29 +0000

Photo

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:16:34 +0000

fuckyeahmanuscripts: Postcards from James Joyce, Gertrude...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:51:38 +0000

fuckyeahmanuscripts:

Postcards from James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka.

There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts,...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:10:15 +0000

There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our landscape. Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade.

In 2010 Directors Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, with Cinematographer Travis Auclair, began documenting these dedicated practitioners, their time-honored methods, and their appreciation for quality and craftsmanship. Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States.

99% Invisible: Episode #74- Hand Painted Signs

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:32:53 +0000

99% Invisible: Episode #74- Hand Painted Signs:

99percentinvisible:

There was a time when every street sign, every billboard, and every window display was painted by hand. This sounds unremarkable until you actually think about what that actually means.

(Sign painter Chancey Curtis in Mankato, MN, ca. 1930. Courtesy of Sign Painters and Princeton…

Photo

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:43:49 +0000

Home Made Jam by Burwash Calligrapher on Flickr.

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:43:13 +0000

Home Made Jam by Burwash Calligrapher on Flickr.

Photo

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:40:07 +0000

My favourite pangram.

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:39:43 +0000

My favourite pangram.

ladylindy: Italo Calvino, incipit autografo di La giornata...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:11:11 +0000

ladylindy:

Italo Calvino, incipit autografo di La giornata d’uno scrutatore [x]

Photo

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:09:22 +0000